A Good Dinner

today, i am gastronomically very satisfied.. :D had a fantastic dinner with the medicine guys.. YUMMY! ok had dinner at mellben seafood, but since the photos are further down, i shall skip to our after dinner dessert stuffs instead.. :p decided to head down to Arab street.. explore the interesting areas of singapore.. ;) when i first reached there, i felt like i was on some sorta of social studies heritage tour. lol.. it was quite interesting to see all the shop houses, and it was great that it there were all these decorative lights. i think they should be left there all year round! just like the new year and xmas lights.. :)

we photowhored as we waited for mich to shift her car due to some.. errrm, unforeseen circumstances.. ;)


headed down to this place called samar. apparently, the arab food they serve here is really good, but since it is fasting month, they only have a buffet thing now. but anw, we weren't interested in savory food, more of some sorta drink/dessert

the ambiance was good! haha.. i like the decor, but the lack of aircon made it hot.. :( it wasn't v well ventilated.. haha



then claire ordered some shisha! its a arabic sorta smoking thing, where u breathe in flavoured smoke. its quite relaxing, and the smoke is very fragrant. haha, we were all having a go at it.. :)



there, that's the whole thing.. the smoke goes thru the water and then u breath it in! :)

here is aud photowhoring again.. haha. with the menu this time.. :p

the desserts took an age to arrive. and in spurts too. even after repeated chiding from all of us. fish was the first to get her dessert.. it was some apple thing with raisins and dates and i forgot what.. quite good! :)

this is audrey waiting v long for her food, and claire thinks she looks like hamtaro!

this one looks just nasty.. :p

me with mich's dessert. this took almost an hour to come.. weili scolded the waiter cuz it was just taking so long. haha.. it was quite hilarious actually.. and it sorta worked.. :)

mich with weili's dessert, which i ate by accident, cuz we didn't know whose it was.. haha

my dessert, which weili took..

this was a happy photo, b4 weili got not so happy waiting so long.. :p haha, but he was fine, just wanted to 'squeeze the waiter's balls' according to him. HAHA

this was us leaving.. :)

ok, and this was the dinner.. went to mellben seafood at toa payoh for the famous crab. well, the original stall is in ang moh kio.. and its apparently a 1h queue, and then another half an hour wait for the food.. but this one is much faster.. so among the 6 of us, we had one crab beehoon, and one shimmering sand crab. MY GOSH, this has got to be the best crab i ever ate. and I LOVE CRABS. its damn nice.. haha.

the roe which me and weili shared cuz the girls didn't wanna put on weight :p

mich showing us how to eat the legs - pull it out from the body and u get a huge chunk of meat. ahaha!

promptly consumed.. :p haha CLEAN! the crab beehoon has a soupy kinda base, and it is sorta a lil spicy, and has a rich milky taste, quite hard to pin point it, but its good. the shimmering sand crab, is just heavenly. its an even richer tasting sauce, and its damn unique. peppery, creamy, buttery, i dunno, such a myriad of flavors mixed together.. excellent!

the place we ate at.. TPY branch!

got really crowded by 7+.. and there was a queue.. they just intruded into the whole open area of the housing estate haha.

yeah, enjoyed today's dinner a lot.. cuz of the yummy food and great company.. haha, nice to meet up with everyone again.. :)